Key Insights from "Designing Distributed Systems"
- Abstractions and patterns: The book emphasizes the importance of using abstractions and patterns in designing distributed systems. It provides a comprehensive catalog of distributed system patterns.
- Single-Node patterns: Discusses a range of single-node patterns including the sidecar pattern, ambassador pattern, and adapter pattern.
- Serving patterns: It explains a variety of serving patterns such as sharding pattern, scatter and gather pattern, and function-as-a-service pattern.
- Batch computational patterns: Covers batch computational patterns with details on the map-reduce pattern and the work queue pattern.
- Event-driven patterns: Explains complex event-driven patterns like event sourcing and CQRS.
- Resilience:...